Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska

female, 86 years old
Wisława Szymborska, Poland) is a Polish poet, essayist and translator. She is the 1996 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Poland, her b...
Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

female, 47 years old
Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the...
Eliza Orzeszkowa

Eliza Orzeszkowa

female, deceased (1910)
Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist, was born near Hrodna (now Belarus), to the noble Pawłowski family. In her sixteenth year she married Piotr O...
Maria Konopnicka

Maria Konopnicka

female, deceased (1910)
Maria Konopnicka was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. She sometimes used pen names, often "Jan Sawa." Konopnicka was a...

Dorota Masłowska

female, 26 years old
Dorota Masłowska [dɔ'rɔta ma'swɔfska] (born 1983) is a Polish writer and journalist. Masłowska was born July 3, 1983 in Wejherowo, and grew up there...
Gabriela Zapolska

Gabriela Zapolska

female, deceased (1921)
Gabriela Zapolska is the pseudonym of the Polish naturalist novelist and actress Maria G. Śnieżko-Błocka. She was born in Podhajce, Austrian Gal...
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

female, deceased (1968)
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish author and resistance fighter, is best known for her wartime efforts to help the Polish Jews. She was a founder of...
Agnieszka Graff

Agnieszka Graff

female, 39 years old
Agnieszka Graff (born October 1 1970), is a Polish writer, translator, publicist, feminist and women's and human rights activist. She graduated...

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

female, deceased (1945)
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, "née" Kossak (24 November 1891 – 9 July 1945), was a Polish poet known as the Polish Sappho and "queen of lyr...

Małgorzata Musierowicz

female, 64 years old
Małgorzata Musierowicz is a popular Polish writer, author of many stories and novels for children and teenagers, but read with pleasure by adults t...